Built to meet the needs of professionals, this genuine sound laboratory brings together people, projects, and different skills.
Artefax is a production company that is active in a variety of fields. Its main mission is to encourage the emergence of artistic projects and provide a platform for exchange, with a view to supporting up-and-coming musicians and contributing to the region’s cultural influence.
A pillar of the music production chain in French-speaking Switzerland for over 30 years, the studio is available for all your musical projects and more.
The sound studio
Sound engineers
As well as being the region's busiest sound engineer, Bernard Amaudruz co-directs the studio.
Berni studied drums and took up piano before taking a particular interest in sound at the age of seventeen and making it his profession. In the 80s, he became Pierre Weber's assistant at Studio Sixty. Building on this experience, he is also in demand as a “sound director” and works on numerous theatrical creations.
Sound engineer
Mike works in tandem with Berni after more than 10 years as sound engineer at the “Le Bourg” concert hall in Lausanne.
He's one of the association's sound engineers and is also responsible for the 2ᵉ régie.
Office team
Martina Bertoli is co-director of the Artefax studio. She is in charge of executive and project management.
Born in Lugano in 1986, Martina acquired an artistic sensibility and developed her relationship with music by learning to play the piano from the age of six. She went on to study at the conservatory, where acting was added as a means of expression, under the guidance of Vania Luraschi.
She went on to study social work at university. In 2016, Martina completed a CAS in Cultural Mediation around the Philosophy of Aesthetics. She added an MAS in Cultural Management, awarded by HEC and UNIGE.
Today, music is her main focus at Artefax.
A pearl of an accountant !
Sam is Wasabidesign.ch !
From 1993 to 2001, she studied applied arts, graphic design and visual communications at the Arts Décoratifs de Genève and then at Eracom in Lausanne. Passionate about raising awareness and promoting issues for the common good, she studied and used the tools of public relations and sustainable development consulting. In 2003, she decided to focus on projects of public interest and “positive impact”. Under the aegis of Wasabidesign, she offers her services on a commission basis.
She also has a passion for illustration, sculpture and painting. The vast world of digital technology stimulates her curiosity and encourages her to continue learning. Event and project management also play an important role in her professional career.
Half Swiss, half Indonesian, her childhood was lulled by the sounds of gamelan and jazz, thanks to a music-loving grandfather and clarinet player.
Attentive to all musical styles, she picks and chooses what inspires her.
Musicians
Composer, arranger, percussionist, author of the Fête des Vignerons 2019, for 900 choristers, 40 percussionists, big band and various soloists, of the oratorio “Equinoxe”, for choir and oriental instruments, or of “3+3”, combining classical and jazz trio.
Experience in music production, as artistic project director, composer, arranger, and percussionist.
In 1991, Mathias co-founded Studio les Petites Fugues with Gilles Abravanel, which became Studio Artefax in 1995. He has been a member of the Artefax board since its creation.
After training as an engineer at EPFL and a short period in research at UNIL-EPFL, he trained as a musician in the United States (MI-Los Angeles). After graduating in 84, he settled in Lausanne and enjoyed a 30-year career as a double bass player (jazz, improvised music, chanson). He also creates music for the theater, and teaches (Montreux Conservatory, Ejma, Manufacture).
Today, still active in various musical creation projects, he is also a trauma therapist in private practice in Lausanne and Chambéry.
+41 78 647 41 81 or +33 7 49 89 21 47
For over twenty years, Alexis Gfeller has been composing piano music for jazz and classical orchestras, and producing sound for theater, dance, and film. He gives concerts as a pianist and performer.
Extensive experience in producing, arranging, composing and accompanying musical projects.
Guitar, Compositions and Arrangements
Ignacio Lamas began playing guitar as a self-taught musician. His musical studies, which he completed in 1999, enabled him to push his instrumental technique further and open the doors to written music. In the course of his studies and experience, he gradually rediscovered the freedom and spontaneity of his beginnings, particularly through improvisation, and developed the necessary tools for composition and arranging, which he has always practised.
He plays in various groups such as Barrio Oscuro, Maria de la Paz, Boulouris, l'orchestre jaune, Lola de Valence, collaborates regularly with the “Voyages extraordinaires” company and accompanies actors in theatrical productions. He also arranges and participates in recordings of songs by artist Nina Dimitri, Chinese singer Susan Wong and the Eldissa project. He devotes part of his time to teaching guitar at the Montreux Conservatoire.
Pianist, bandoneonist, composer, arranger, musical project manager
An inspired multi-instrumentalist, Daniel Perrin trained in the school of jazz.
Born in Lausanne in 1955, he began studying classical piano at the Czerny Institute of Lausanne, which he attended from 1974 to 1978. From 1979 to 1983, he attended the Swiss Jazz School in Bern. From 1987 to 1988, he studied composition with Awer Blue in New York. Finally, since 1990, he has been self-taught on accordion, clarinet and bandoneon.
Jean-Sam obtained his clarinet virtuosity diploma from the Lausanne Conservatory and the interregional prize in Luxembourg. During his training, he had the opportunity to work with Michel Arrignon of the Paris Conservatoire, Antonio Saïote of the Porto National Conservatoire and Thomas Friedli of the Geneva Conservatoire. In 1999, he took part in the Seminar for Young Soloists with the Timisoara Orchestra, conducted by Jean-François Antonioli.
Classically trained, he soon developed an interest in improvisation and perfected his skills on bass clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophone. He plays regularly in various jazz, funk and contemporary music groups.
Jocelyne is of Rwandan origin, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1975. She took up the double bass at the age of 16, and obtained a teaching diploma from the Lausanne Conservatoire in 2001, in Michel Veillon's class.
She then went on to perfect her skills at the Basel Conservatory, in the class of Wolfgang Güttler, with whom she obtained a concert diploma in 2004. For several years now, she has been teaching at the Conservatoire de Fribourg, and has enriched her pedagogical approach by following the Suzuki course given by Virginia Dixon in Copenhagen.
Classical guitarist, then self-taught with a passion for rock, funk and blues. Co-founder of Disfunktion, he went on to create the trios rock the bliss, Jack is Dead & Son Orchestre Iranien, and since 2020 has led a solo project under St.Ali and then his own name. He collaborates with Lee Maddeford, Pierre Audétat, François Vé, Thierry Romanens, A Few Good Men, Stress. In Berlin with Taylor Savvy, Mocky. In New York with Daniel Carter (Thurston Moore).
Yves Ali Zahno also composes original music for theater, contemporary dance, TV and radio (RTS) and for readings, notably with Antoine Jaccoud (Fully-Texas, series on RTS1) and director Muriel Imbach.
Sound creation, theater
Arts and crafts: manufacture of custom loudspeakers
Computer science: Max programming, (cycling74.com)
“Sound in theater raises questions. Because it's not obviously necessary, but it's easily impressive. Because technical resources that were inaccessible just a few years ago can be used on stage today. And, above all, because rehearsal time allows us to approach these tools in a more intimate, artisanal way. Trying to unravel, perhaps for ourselves alone, the compromising love affair that shackles message and medium.”
+41 79 540 32 43
Guitarist. Member of the Eustache association and the Artefax collective.
Multi-faceted and eclectic, he feeds on and is carried away by many improvised and mixed currents that have taken him to Europe, West and North Africa, Russia, the Baltic States, South America and Canada.
Alongside his stage work, he has developed collaborations with protagonists from other art forms (theater, literature, cinema, installations).
During the period of confinement, he launched the Zwabaseries on YouTube, a series of collaborative travelling musical games.
Graphic designers, illustrators and professionals in various forms of visual expression offer you specialized services.
Whether in digital or traditional media, the varied skills of Ateliers Artefax can be the perfect equation for communicating your project.
The art studio
Artists
Anne Wilsdorf was born on April 11, 1954 in Luanda, Angola. During her childhood, she lived in a number of countries before settling in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1976. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts et d'Art Appliqué in Lausanne (now ECAL) and teaches at the École Romande d'Art et de Communication (ERACOM) in the same city. She lives in Lausanne with her husband Henry Meyer, a sculptor, draughtsman and printmaker.
Their daughter Berivan, born on May 11, 1982, studied fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and has since created her own label.
+41 21 661 21 21
Fabio Guida (*1997) is an artist who graduated from EDHEA (Sierre, CH), and lives and works in Lausanne. He practices visual expression in various forms within a conceptual approach, with painting as his central medium.
His main influences are outdoor spaces in general. He has a strong interest in atmospheres in which a multitude of surfaces, shapes and materials intermingle. The exploration and research of textures and materials are, consequently, significant vectors of his work.
Aude's practice revolves around research, experimentation and the desire to find the media and design that best convey a project. She often seeks to bring together manual and digital techniques to create surprising results.
Having fun and making the project accessible to a non-designer audience are two important aspects she tries to put into practice. According to Aude, it's necessary to avoid design that's too elitist, and thus convey an idea or opinion in an accessible way.
Publishing, typography and illustration are my favorite fields. My studies (CFC at éracom and bachelor at écal) and several internships enabled me to deepen my knowledge and make them my specialties.
Her sources of inspiration are everyday life, incidences, inexhaustible discussions and frequently politicized and engaged reading. Another source of enrichment is collective work. This methodology forces us to step out of our comfort zone, to question and to move projects towards the unexpected.
+41 78 489 22 65
Morgane Cachin (1998*) is a freelance graphic designer.
She obtained her Bachelor's degree in graphic design from l'écal in June 2022. She has also been an assistant since last September. Morgane works mainly on visual identity projects for various cultural venues, as well as editorial work. She enjoys working with different analog techniques to create images or visuals, bringing materiality to these graphic creations.
Graduating from HEAD Geneva in 2019, Noor lives and works in Lausanne, where she develops her artistic practice through oil painting and drawing.
She draws inspiration from her daily life to create portraits, landscapes and still lifes using flat tints of color. The correspondence between different forms and their repetition create a dialogue between her paintings, exploring the relationship between figuration and abstraction.
At the same time, she took the time to complete a Master's degree in Museum Studies at the University of Neuchâtel, with the aim of training in the field of curating and exhibition production.
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Built to meet the needs of professionals, this genuine sound laboratory brings together people, projects, and different skills.
Artefax is a production company that is active in a variety of fields. Its main mission is to encourage the emergence of artistic projects and provide a platform for exchange, with a view to supporting up-and-coming musicians and contributing to the region’s cultural influence.
A pillar of the music production chain in French-speaking Switzerland for over 30 years, the studio is available for all your musical projects and more.
The sound studio
Sound engineers
As well as being the region's busiest sound engineer, Bernard Amaudruz co-directs the studio.
Berni studied drums and took up piano before taking a particular interest in sound at the age of seventeen and making it his profession. In the 80s, he became Pierre Weber's assistant at Studio Sixty. Building on this experience, he is also in demand as a “sound director” and works on numerous theatrical creations.
Sound engineer
Mike works in tandem with Berni after more than 10 years as sound engineer at the “Le Bourg” concert hall in Lausanne.
He's one of the association's sound engineers and is also responsible for the 2ᵉ régie.
Office team
Martina Bertoli is co-director of the Artefax studio. She is in charge of executive and project management.
Born in Lugano in 1986, Martina acquired an artistic sensibility and developed her relationship with music by learning to play the piano from the age of six. She went on to study at the conservatory, where acting was added as a means of expression, under the guidance of Vania Luraschi.
She went on to study social work at university. In 2016, Martina completed a CAS in Cultural Mediation around the Philosophy of Aesthetics. She added an MAS in Cultural Management, awarded by HEC and UNIGE.
Today, music is her main focus at Artefax.
A pearl of an accountant !
Sam is Wasabidesign.ch !
From 1993 to 2001, she studied applied arts, graphic design and visual communications at the Arts Décoratifs de Genève and then at Eracom in Lausanne. Passionate about raising awareness and promoting issues for the common good, she studied and used the tools of public relations and sustainable development consulting. In 2003, she decided to focus on projects of public interest and “positive impact”. Under the aegis of Wasabidesign, she offers her services on a commission basis.
She also has a passion for illustration, sculpture and painting. The vast world of digital technology stimulates her curiosity and encourages her to continue learning. Event and project management also play an important role in her professional career.
Half Swiss, half Indonesian, her childhood was lulled by the sounds of gamelan and jazz, thanks to a music-loving grandfather and clarinet player.
Attentive to all musical styles, she picks and chooses what inspires her.
Musicians
Composer, arranger, percussionist, author of the Fête des Vignerons 2019, for 900 choristers, 40 percussionists, big band and various soloists, of the oratorio “Equinoxe”, for choir and oriental instruments, or of “3+3”, combining classical and jazz trio.
Experience in music production, as artistic project director, composer, arranger, and percussionist.
In 1991, Mathias co-founded Studio les Petites Fugues with Gilles Abravanel, which became Studio Artefax in 1995. He has been a member of the Artefax board since its creation.
After training as an engineer at EPFL and a short period in research at UNIL-EPFL, he trained as a musician in the United States (MI-Los Angeles). After graduating in 84, he settled in Lausanne and enjoyed a 30-year career as a double bass player (jazz, improvised music, chanson). He also creates music for the theater, and teaches (Montreux Conservatory, Ejma, Manufacture).
Today, still active in various musical creation projects, he is also a trauma therapist in private practice in Lausanne and Chambéry.
+41 78 647 41 81 or +33 7 49 89 21 47
For over twenty years, Alexis Gfeller has been composing piano music for jazz and classical orchestras, and producing sound for theater, dance, and film. He gives concerts as a pianist and performer.
Extensive experience in producing, arranging, composing and accompanying musical projects.
Guitar, Compositions and Arrangements
Ignacio Lamas began playing guitar as a self-taught musician. His musical studies, which he completed in 1999, enabled him to push his instrumental technique further and open the doors to written music. In the course of his studies and experience, he gradually rediscovered the freedom and spontaneity of his beginnings, particularly through improvisation, and developed the necessary tools for composition and arranging, which he has always practised.
He plays in various groups such as Barrio Oscuro, Maria de la Paz, Boulouris, l'orchestre jaune, Lola de Valence, collaborates regularly with the “Voyages extraordinaires” company and accompanies actors in theatrical productions. He also arranges and participates in recordings of songs by artist Nina Dimitri, Chinese singer Susan Wong and the Eldissa project. He devotes part of his time to teaching guitar at the Montreux Conservatoire.
Pianist, bandoneonist, composer, arranger, musical project manager
An inspired multi-instrumentalist, Daniel Perrin trained in the school of jazz.
Born in Lausanne in 1955, he began studying classical piano at the Czerny Institute of Lausanne, which he attended from 1974 to 1978. From 1979 to 1983, he attended the Swiss Jazz School in Bern. From 1987 to 1988, he studied composition with Awer Blue in New York. Finally, since 1990, he has been self-taught on accordion, clarinet and bandoneon.
Jean-Sam obtained his clarinet virtuosity diploma from the Lausanne Conservatory and the interregional prize in Luxembourg. During his training, he had the opportunity to work with Michel Arrignon of the Paris Conservatoire, Antonio Saïote of the Porto National Conservatoire and Thomas Friedli of the Geneva Conservatoire. In 1999, he took part in the Seminar for Young Soloists with the Timisoara Orchestra, conducted by Jean-François Antonioli.
Classically trained, he soon developed an interest in improvisation and perfected his skills on bass clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophone. He plays regularly in various jazz, funk and contemporary music groups.
Jocelyne is of Rwandan origin, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1975. She took up the double bass at the age of 16, and obtained a teaching diploma from the Lausanne Conservatoire in 2001, in Michel Veillon's class.
She then went on to perfect her skills at the Basel Conservatory, in the class of Wolfgang Güttler, with whom she obtained a concert diploma in 2004. For several years now, she has been teaching at the Conservatoire de Fribourg, and has enriched her pedagogical approach by following the Suzuki course given by Virginia Dixon in Copenhagen.
Classical guitarist, then self-taught with a passion for rock, funk and blues. Co-founder of Disfunktion, he went on to create the trios rock the bliss, Jack is Dead & Son Orchestre Iranien, and since 2020 has led a solo project under St.Ali and then his own name. He collaborates with Lee Maddeford, Pierre Audétat, François Vé, Thierry Romanens, A Few Good Men, Stress. In Berlin with Taylor Savvy, Mocky. In New York with Daniel Carter (Thurston Moore).
Yves Ali Zahno also composes original music for theater, contemporary dance, TV and radio (RTS) and for readings, notably with Antoine Jaccoud (Fully-Texas, series on RTS1) and director Muriel Imbach.
Sound creation, theater
Arts and crafts: manufacture of custom loudspeakers
Computer science: Max programming, (cycling74.com)
“Sound in theater raises questions. Because it's not obviously necessary, but it's easily impressive. Because technical resources that were inaccessible just a few years ago can be used on stage today. And, above all, because rehearsal time allows us to approach these tools in a more intimate, artisanal way. Trying to unravel, perhaps for ourselves alone, the compromising love affair that shackles message and medium.”
+41 79 540 32 43
Guitarist. Member of the Eustache association and the Artefax collective.
Multi-faceted and eclectic, he feeds on and is carried away by many improvised and mixed currents that have taken him to Europe, West and North Africa, Russia, the Baltic States, South America and Canada.
Alongside his stage work, he has developed collaborations with protagonists from other art forms (theater, literature, cinema, installations).
During the period of confinement, he launched the Zwabaseries on YouTube, a series of collaborative travelling musical games.
Graphic designers, illustrators and professionals in various forms of visual expression offer you specialized services.
Whether in digital or traditional media, the varied skills of Ateliers Artefax can be the perfect equation for communicating your project.
The art studio
Artists
Anne Wilsdorf was born on April 11, 1954 in Luanda, Angola. During her childhood, she lived in a number of countries before settling in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1976. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts et d'Art Appliqué in Lausanne (now ECAL) and teaches at the École Romande d'Art et de Communication (ERACOM) in the same city. She lives in Lausanne with her husband Henry Meyer, a sculptor, draughtsman and printmaker.
Their daughter Berivan, born on May 11, 1982, studied fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and has since created her own label.
+41 21 661 21 21
Fabio Guida (*1997) is an artist who graduated from EDHEA (Sierre, CH), and lives and works in Lausanne. He practices visual expression in various forms within a conceptual approach, with painting as his central medium.
His main influences are outdoor spaces in general. He has a strong interest in atmospheres in which a multitude of surfaces, shapes and materials intermingle. The exploration and research of textures and materials are, consequently, significant vectors of his work.
Aude's practice revolves around research, experimentation and the desire to find the media and design that best convey a project. She often seeks to bring together manual and digital techniques to create surprising results.
Having fun and making the project accessible to a non-designer audience are two important aspects she tries to put into practice. According to Aude, it's necessary to avoid design that's too elitist, and thus convey an idea or opinion in an accessible way.
Publishing, typography and illustration are my favorite fields. My studies (CFC at éracom and bachelor at écal) and several internships enabled me to deepen my knowledge and make them my specialties.
Her sources of inspiration are everyday life, incidences, inexhaustible discussions and frequently politicized and engaged reading. Another source of enrichment is collective work. This methodology forces us to step out of our comfort zone, to question and to move projects towards the unexpected.
+41 78 489 22 65
Morgane Cachin (1998*) is a freelance graphic designer.
She obtained her Bachelor's degree in graphic design from l'écal in June 2022. She has also been an assistant since last September. Morgane works mainly on visual identity projects for various cultural venues, as well as editorial work. She enjoys working with different analog techniques to create images or visuals, bringing materiality to these graphic creations.
Graduating from HEAD Geneva in 2019, Noor lives and works in Lausanne, where she develops her artistic practice through oil painting and drawing.
She draws inspiration from her daily life to create portraits, landscapes and still lifes using flat tints of color. The correspondence between different forms and their repetition create a dialogue between her paintings, exploring the relationship between figuration and abstraction.
At the same time, she took the time to complete a Master's degree in Museum Studies at the University of Neuchâtel, with the aim of training in the field of curating and exhibition production.
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